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Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, (of Minto) (September 1722 – 11 February 1777) was born at Minto, Roxburghshire, and was a Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet.
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, PC, FRSE (/ k ɪ ˈ n ɪ n m ə n d /; 23 April 1751 – 21 June 1814), known as Sir Gilbert Elliott, 4th Baronet until 1797, and the Lord Minto from 1797 to 1813, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1776 and 1795.
ELLIOT, Gilbert (1722-77), of Minto, Roxburgh. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto was a politician and literary patron from Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. Elliot was a close friend of the philosopher David Hume. However, as an elder of the Church of Scotland, Elliot was critical of Hume’s religious scepticism and advised his friend against publishing some of his more controversial works.
3rd Baronet of Minto. Sir Gilbert Elliot was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire between 1753 - 1765. He was a Tory Member of the King’s Privy Council in 1762. He was Member of Parliament Roxburghshire between 1765 - 1777. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Elliot of Headshaw in 1766.
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- February 11, 1777
- Agnes (Murray Kynynmound) Elliot
- December 14, 1746
History. The family descends from the politician and judge Gilbert Elliot, who served as a Lord of Session under the judicial title of Lord Minto. In 1700 he was created a baronet, of Minto in the County of Roxburgh, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet.
Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
